CHARLES CRILL
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Officer Rank: Special Officer
Memorial Panel: 25-W: 31
Department: Chicago & North Western Railroad, P.D.
End of Watch: March 17, 1917
Cause: SHOT
Age: 43
Years of Service: 2
Description: Special Officer Crill was fatally shot as he and two police officers attempted to arrest a gang of burglars who were breaking into the boxcars at the railyard in Des Moines, Iowa. A second officer was also wounded but survived. Three suspects were arrested and charged with murder.
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